Willing to bet at even odds (hmu) that "emotion is constructed, rather than discovered, by interpretation" becomes the dominant paradigm in a way that makes e.g. psychoanalysis and other interpretive frameworks look like they were chasing their own tail.
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Probably the big offshoot of this would be that "processing" and looking for origin stories of personal pain would be harmfully reinforcing the self-assessed emotional reality, rather than rewriting it.
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(This doesn't apply for stuff that is clearly linked to deep priors about the world, e.g. PTSD, but it does see some support in the way that re-processing/re-narrativizing/re-conceptualizing trauma in a better light on MDMA is so effective as therapy.)
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my working theory is, emotions are discovered the first time but become increasingly constructed with every recall, and assume the shape of the narrative
and looking for pain origin stories would be counterproductive because narratives are a mnemonic, in this case for pain